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As many of you noticed, we had a site crash today. From around 1300 until 2200 UTC (2021-05-20).
A HUGE thank you goes to mechanicjay who spent the whole time trying to get our ndb (cluster) working again. It's an uncommon configuration, which made recovery especially challenging... there's just not a lot of documentation about it on the web.
I reached out and got hold of The Mighty Buzzard on the phone. Then put him in touch with mechanicjay who got us back up and running using backups.
Unfortunately, we had to go way back until April 14 to get a working backup. (I don't know all the details, but it appears something went sideways on neon).
We're all wiped out right now. When we have rested and had a chance to discuss things, we'll post an update.
In the meantime, please join me in thanking mechanicjay and TMB for all they did to get us up and running again!
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 21 2021, @10:45AM (1 child)
Slash is dead. The repeated crashes show you can’t even claim it’s in maintenance mode.
User moderation is a joke. Too many people trying to game the system. It’s one of the reasons people maintain sock puppets. User moderation is no better than Facebook likes. It’s just noise at this point. An experiment that failed.
And now all the posts regarding NCommanders observations in his resignation post, and all the questions it raised about how it was deleted from the story queue after the submission was accepted, are conveniently gone.
“Because the backups over the last month are corrupted.”
Unfortunately believable given the lack of any real technical professionalism on a “tech” site.
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Friday May 21 2021, @11:17PM
But did they fake the Moon landing or not?